What was socialism, and what comes next? (Record no. 1848077)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691011325 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Texual |
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| Original cataloging agency | RTL |
| Transcribing agency | RTL |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Assigning agency | RTL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Verdery, Katherine |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234318 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What was socialism, and what comes next? |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Princeton |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1996 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Other physical details | 298 p. |
| Dimensions | includes bibliographical references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as “civil society,” the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery’s examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.<br/> |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Socialism--Romania |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234319 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Communism--Romania |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234320 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Post-communism--Romania |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234321 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Suppress in OPAC | Yes |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Ratan Tata Library | Ratan Tata Library | 2026-04-08 | RT1528740 | 2026-04-08 | 2026-04-08 | Textbook |